Re: [BUG] Searching the Dictionary with $

or when someone hangs extra characters on the end of a word for no reason, like "dialogue" On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 1:27 AM, Ali Lloyd wrote: > > > > At some point we might want to add the

Re: Hanging from the washing line.

I tried with a field set to zapfino (the most vertically expansive font I have) 14, text height 6. I’m seeing that in LC 8.1.2 on Mac, that with the field fixed line height off things look right, showing wide line height and no attenuation. With fixed line height on, LC pushes all the text off

Re: How to tell if something is put into the message box

OK, I am NOT a regex expert, but ... wouldn't that give you other lines like put tVar into myVar should it not be simply ^put \w$ so that you don't get all the other put statements ... that "+" allows any number (>=1) of words. And even then, you will miss if x = y then put tVar and

Re: How to tell if something is put into the message box

Oh I never thought of using regex! I understand the principle but I'm not so clear on all the options and how they interact. I tried reading up on it once but my brain began to hurt so I backed off. :-) Bob S > On Dec 29, 2016, at 13:18 , Kay C Lan wrote: > > If

Re: How to tell if something is put into the message box

If all you were looking for was incidences of: put tVar you could always just open the 'Find and Replace' from the Edit menu, select This stack, tick the 'Reg. Expression' box and search for: ^put \w+$ I know you'll know what this means but for those not so familiar with regex: ^ = start of

Re: Launching a subprocess under OSX?

On 12/29/2016 3:23 PM, Phil Davis wrote: > Hi Paul, > > In the Mac world, I find that if my app starts a true command-line > tool (like SOX or FFMPEG or mediainfo) with 'open process' or > 'shell()', all is well - no indication of its execution is visible to > the user of my app. Of course those

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On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > I’m planning lots of work in the garden Just can't get away from eradicating bugs ;-) > > * yes that’s a Tim Minchin reference Stumbled upon a Tim Minchin show in New York a couple of years back when one of my team

Re: Launching a subprocess under OSX?

Hi Paul, In the Mac world, I find that if my app starts a true command-line tool (like SOX or FFMPEG or mediainfo) with 'open process' or 'shell()', all is well - no indication of its execution is visible to the user of my app. Of course those tools are designed to be command-line only - no

Launching a subprocess under OSX?

On Windows, I can launch a subprocess using: open process tHelperApp for text update And I get a subprocess that does not appear as a separate running app to the user. They do not see it appear in the task bar. There is no apparent change to the running app that launched the helper. It just

Re: Hanging from the washing line.

No: the lineHeight is not set to fixed. Richmond. On 12/29/16 7:16 pm, Stephen Barncard wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I search for textH in the dictionary and find textHeight, a property of a field. also is your line height set for

Re: Hanging from the washing line.

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I search for textH in the dictionary and find textHeight, a property of a > field. > also is your line height set for fixed? -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org

Re: Hanging from the washing line.

I search for textH in the dictionary and find textHeight, a property of a field. Bob S On Dec 29, 2016, at 09:01 , Richmond Mathewson > wrote: I am using a font that has "descenders" that descend extremely low below the 'normal'

Hanging from the washing line.

I am using a font that has "descenders" that descend extremely low below the 'normal' writing line, and as such gets bottoms of glyphs chopped off in LiveCode textFields. Is this a problem that can be rectified inwith LiveCode, or do I have to go back to my font editor and change the font's

Re: How to tell if something is put into the message box

NVM I figured out a way to do this. I set gRevDevelopment to true, then set a breakpoint on the first line of revInitialise of the behavior of field "message" of card "Single Line" of stack "Message Box". At that point I was able to use the Handler List popup menu in the script editor to find

How to tell if something is put into the message box

Hi all. I, like a moron, put a value into the message box usign the form "put x" without the "into message". Now I cannot find where that bit of code is. Is there a place I can modify the code that does that to either break or else save the calling program a log file? Bob S

Re: LC 9 Problem inserting Controls

Ahah! I've seen in version 8 where I drop a control and it never ends up where I actually drop it. Also, the card is overlayed with a blue color, something LC never did before. Bob S > On Dec 29, 2016, at 03:53 , Lagi Pittas wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > It was Toplevel not

Re: EBCDIC to ASCII (Richard Gaskin)

Quentin Long wrote: > sez Richard Gaskin : >> Anyone here have a function to translate the old EBCDIC encoding >> format to anything more modern format like ASCII or UTF-8? > > Doubtful. If ESR is right about its "at least six mutually > incompatible versions... and the absence of several ASCII

Re: EBCDIC to ASCII (Richard Gaskin)

sez Richard Gaskin : > Anyone here have a function to translate the old EBCDIC encoding format > to anything more modern format like ASCII or UTF-8? Doubtful. If ESR is right about its "at least six mutually incompatible versions... and the absence of several ASCII

Re: LC 9 Problem inserting Controls

Hi Bob, It was Toplevel not Modal. I removed all controls one by one - no go. I opened it in version 8 , still the same. Was going back to six but I tried a long shot - and prayed. I set the scale factor back to 1 (I'm developing on a height of 1280) and the controls could be seen. Then I put